CANADA —The city government of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada has decided to institute a 300-percent licensing fee increase to those who operate strip clubs. There are only two in the city.Pat Harris, Kitchener’s manager of licensing, said publicly that the increased costs are...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Comcast is rapidly replacing AOL as the butt of internet-related joked and consumer complaints. Accused this past summer of establishing and harshly enforcing mysterious maximum download limits that even chief executives can’t define, the cable and...

ROME, GA —The long-running legal battle being fought by comic book retailer Gordon Lee just got longer with the judge in the case declaring a mistrial due to statements made by state prosecutor John Tully during opening arguments yesterday.Comic book retailer Gordon Lee is...

WASHINGTON, DC —As it currently stands, a United States soldier can die for his/her country — but on base, he or she cannot purchase what the Pentagon considers sexually explicit material. The on-base sale of porn has been banned for 10 years on military bases, much...

AUSTRALIA —Scientists at the Queensland University of Technology are working with Harvard Medical School to come up with a vaccine to protect teenage girls from chlamydia. Dr. Michael Starnbach from Harvard is in Australia to work with QUT on a joint research project using...

UNITED KINGDOM — British “decency and accountability in the media” group Mediawatch-UK wants to see any and all erotic images removed from the region’s television screens – and a warning issued by the government about porn’s alleged “toxic” affects upon viewers. Basing its...

STAUNTON, VA – If it was City Prosecutor Raymond C. Robertson’s intention to strike fear into the hearts of the Staunton, VA-area adult video shop owners, then he has accomplished his goal. After dropping 16 felony obscenity charges in the lap of both Rick E. Krial and his After...

COLUMBUS, OH — The Ohio Supreme Court said no yesterday to a strip-club referendum that supporters hoped to push onto next week’s general election. Dancers For Democracy and other groups argued that Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner improperly rejected tens of thousands...

STAUNTON, VA — Things are apparently pretty quiet in Staunton, VA. Quiet enough that two grand juries have been called within a single month, the second one requested due to something the city prosecutor calls “special consideration.” Naturally, this refers to...

FORT WALTON BEACH, FL —A man celebrating his college graduation ran up a $53,000 bill at Club 10 and the grad’s father wants the cops to go after the club for fraud and larceny.Tommy Salter was at the strip club one night in August with friends to celebrate his graduation...